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The legacy of IPA, founded by Nikhil Chakravartty, the doyen of journalism in India, to keep the flag of independent media flying high, is facing the threat of extinction due to the effect of the Covid pandemic. Only an emergency funding can avert such an eventuality. We appeal to all those who believe in the freedom of expression to contribute to this noble cause.Indo-US Trade Deal Is Nearing Conclusion As Both Sides Dilute Earlier Hard Stance
By Kalyani Shankar The long-awaited trade deal between the US and India is coming close. The US has indicated a potential reduction of the 50% tariff on Indian goods. President Donald Trump is expressing some flexibility on the matter. “We’re making a deal with India—it’s a much different deal...
Centre Can’t Pretend Sliding Rupee Just A Currency Blip
By R. Suryamurthy India is drifting into yet another familiar cycle of currency anxiety. The rupee has slipped to fresh lows, brushed up against the psychologically loaded 90-per-dollar mark, and triggered the usual storm of political point-scoring and expert cautioning. The noise is predictable; what it hides is far...
President Trump And New York Mayor Elect Mamdani Reset A Fractured Relationship
By T N Ashok NEW YORK: The afternoon light slanted across the South Portico when Mayor Zohran Mamdani of New York City stepped out of a black SUV and strode toward the West Wing entrance of the White House in Washington on November 21 npoon— a sight that would...
Opposition’s Unsuccessful Attempt To Milk Sabarimala Issue
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The desperate attempt of the Opposition parties in Kerala – the Congress-led United Democratic Front (UDF) and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) – to extract political capital out of the Sabarimala issue seems to be reaching nowhere. The main reason for the failure of the...
Centre’s New Four Labour Codes Have Angered The Indian Trade Unions
By Jag Mohan Thaken CHANDIGARH: After a thumping win in Bihar Assembly elections, the BJP led central government has started to implement its hidden agendas, which it kept pending for more than five years. On Friday, November 21, 2025, it notified the four labour codes, which were waiting for...
Supreme Court Signalling Constitutional Rethink On Talaq Issue Has Wider Dimension
By Asad Mirza Recent observations by a Supreme Court bench on the topic of Talaq, has yet again opened a Pandora box. The issue could be resolved once and for all if the Muslim jurists make a review of the practice in keeping with the modern times. On November...
Trump-Mamdani Meet: It Was A Win-Win Situation For Both Leaders
By Nitya Chakraborty The meeting on Friday November 21 between the U.S. President Donald Trump and the New York Mayoral-elect Zohran Mamdani produced a win-win situation for both leaders. The maverick Republican President who earlier called Mamdani a lunatic communist and the 34 year old firebrand democratic socialist who...
Dissecting Supreme Court’s Governance And Timeline Verdict
By K Raveendran The framers of the Constituent Assembly drafted the Constitution on the assumption that political actors—presidents, governors, ministers, assemblies—would honour a baseline of institutional morality enabling parliamentary democracy to function as the architects envisaged. That assumption rested on the idea that constitutional statutes alone would not suffice;...
Busy Economic Season Begins But No Improvement In Job Situation
By Dr. Gyan Pathak It should be a wake-up call for the Union Government that the economically busy season of the year started in September, and the festival season September-October has failed to improve employment and unemployment situation in the country. Unemployment rate remained in Current Weekly Status (CWS)...
It Is Time South Asian Countries Deal Bilateral Relations With Caution And Cooperation
By Dr Arun Mitra For some time now, the events that are fast occurring in South Asia one after other are a cause of concern. We witnessed terrorist violence in Pahalgam on 22nd April 2025 where 26 innocent people were killed. Now 15 people have died after a blast...
As SIP Surges And Deposits Slow, India’s Financial Stability Has Some Risks
By R. Suryamurthy There is an odd sense of comfort in India’s savings revolution — as if we are watching a financial transformation gather speed while pretending there is no downside to it. Mutual funds have become the new cultural shorthand for “smart money”, the aspirational badge of financial...
Baffling SC Verdict On Deadline For Governors On Bills
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Supreme Court verdict that it cannot set a time limit for the President and Governors to grant or deny assent to the bills passed by the State legislatures has left the urgent Constitutional question of whether the laws passed by the State Governments can...
Job Situation In Bangladesh Worsens As Foreign Countries Restrict Taking Bangla Labour
By Ashis Biswas To everyone’s surprise Bangladesh’s economy is doing none too badly, even as hard times continue to plague the interim Government led by Dr M Yunus. Nearly sixteen months after the fall of the Sheikh Hasina government, despite occasional fluctuations, the country’s export earnings and remittances have...
50 Years After Franco’s Death, Fascist Legacy Still Haunts Spain
By Jim Jump MADRID: “Spaniards, Franco has died,” came the announcement 50 years ago on Spanish TV. If there was any truth to the widely held story that Barcelona immediately ran out of cava, the corks would have been popping behind closed doors. Most Spaniards held their breath on...
India’s Higher-Education System Is Driving Students Out — Not Bringing The World In
By R. Suryamurthy India’s student mobility crisis is no longer a question of data, it is an indictment of a system that has refused to reform while the world moved on. The new NITI Aayog paper does not so much analyse this imbalance as expose it. The numbers are...
Big Technological Changes In Employment Market Widening Income Divide
By Sanjay Roy Employment across the world is undergoing changes. The changes are multi-dimensional, driven by shifting nature of labour contract by skill grades, impacted by uncertainty and shocks in supply chains. However, the tendencies are neither uniform across countries nor do they show uniformity in direction of change....
Following Reverses In Bihar Polls, Congress Leadership Of INDIA Bloc Is Challenged
By Rahil Nora Chopra The political activity in Uttar Pradesh is heated up as senior Samajwadi Party leader Ravidas Mehrotra remarked that SP president Akhilesh Yadav should lead the I.N.D.I.A. alliance in place of Congress. Congress Lok Sabha MP Imran Masood, however, quickly countered the remark saying that Rahul...
American Economic Policies Are Meant To Impose Austerity On Working People
By Prabhat Patnaik The fact that speculation can exacerbate a basic situation of shortage of a commodity by encouraging its hoarding, or even cause a completely artificial shortage of it when no basic shortage exists, and thereby play havoc with the lives of the working people, especially when the...
